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Jump To Comment: 1On cue (the above article which reported a "kite-flying" exercise in the LA Times), the US State Department under Hillary Clinton has indeed cut all US non-humanitarian aid to Honduras - about $30m which would have followed June's coup. Honduras looks set to lose a total of $200m because of this decision. Which we may note is less than it would get from the EU but only 50m more than it has got this month from the IMF courtesy of the G20. We may also note that US humanitarian aid is still available for Hondurans who most likely are scouring the skies as I write awaiting a delivery of rice, noodles, swine flu vaccines or colored pencils by stealth bomber air drop. For such humanitarianism is the USA famed.
According to the BBC, the state department said the US needed to take strong action given the failure of the replacement regime to restore "democratic, constitutional rule".
This has all coincided with a meeting between Zelaya and Clinton in Washington where as far as I can tell he has been now for at least three days. "With this decision of the United States, the countries of the Americas have formed a single bloc in condemning the coup," Mr Zelaya was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
* The US has also decided it isn't to going to recognise the results of the general & presidential elections. A State department spokesperson commenting : "There's a sense that the de facto regime was thinking if we can just get to an election that this will absolve them of all their sins. That is not the case." I hope you all understand the gravity of the "no absolution" thing - for surely and most verily these Americans are merciless in their rightousness.
The BBC English pages have actually made quite an effort in the small hours for us Europeans to put together (for once) an informative article on this. It breaks down what the now suspended aid was going to be used for. They've even given a sidebar to their analyst Stephen Gibbs who explains to us that the Honduran regime can quite probably do without thier new highway and aren't facing an all out US trade embargo any time soon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8236996.stm
= quite. no embargo. no tough words. no proper analysis of human rights issues or the funding from the G20 and US corporate interests in Honduras but loads of attention trumpeted for a mild scolding.
We're still at the three hail mary stage of contrition for this attrition style coup d'etat and Honduras aint Cuba.
Nonetheless Brazil has stepped up its pressure and is now refusing to grant visa applications to Hondurans, as in any of them - worker, student, holiday maker or in-law relative of a Brazilian family.
& to mark that significance of that Zelaya has announced (for the fourth time since the coup) that he will attempt a return to Honduras in the next few days. Each time he does that he talks about blood and uses religious language, without actually doing an Iranian green revolution martyrdom vibe which seems so popular with young fans of U2.
Every, as in each time, other Honduran people die and he doesn't get restored. But that's very good for keeping the morale up and awakening the political spirit of Hondurans.